Are we like this in few years time?

As I am sitting in a fastfood resto on a Sunday morning, sitting across my table is a group of friends - a girl with her husband and child, another one of the girls with her husband and son, and a single guy. As I overhear their conversation, I definitely suggest that indeed, the guy was single. I believe, they are on their way to weekend bonding.

I feel for the guy, not that I am single with married and with kids friends, but it was just sad that you don't have somebody to bring on such occasions. That your friends are happy (with their kids and significant others) while you are there looking at them, hoping for a partner whom you can laugh with and laugh at.

For the past 5 years, I feel that somehow, I am that single guy. I have lots of friends and seeing them spending quality time with their significant others, makes me jealous. I can't make Louie come over when I am down, he just gives out virtual hugs and kisses, nor spend a date with him every month, when I feel like celebrating. I miss our Sundays together. It was never easy, and when you are getting older, you feel like you need more of that close encounters.

Moreso, I am that single guy. I overhear him saying, "Galing akong Bacolod, tapos Boracay". Times you spend with yourself, looking for yourself. That's what I see as the advantage of my status. I can go wherever I go, spend time with my girlfriends, watch a movie that I want, travel and study social or spending a day in a coffee shop, just looking around or reading a new book. Most importantly, I can spend a whole day shopping without a boyfriend bugging me, or just sitting at a sofa inside the store.

My relationship status has definitely has its ups and downs, but all I see is the opportunity to grow as myself, and eventually, spending forever with that somebody. After all, you can't love somebody if you don't know how to love yourself.

I'm going to go now and the group is also preparing to leave. I'm off to a trip down south.